Put Music and Videos on Your iPhone

This article teaches you how to upload or download music and videos to your iPhone.

Steps

Adding New Music or Videos with the iTunes Store App

  1. Open the iTunes Store app. It's a purple app with a white musical note inside a white circle.
    • It's advisable to Join a Wireless Network from Your iPhone network with this method, as music and videos use a lot of data when downloading.
  2. Find music and/or videos. You can do this in a few ways:
    • Tap Search. It's a magnifying glass icon in the lower-right part of the screen.
    • Do this if you're searching for a specific song, artist, movie, or TV show, then tap the "Search" field at the top of the screen. Type the title, artist, or keyword in the field, then tap the the result your looking for.
    • Tap Music. It's a musical note icon in the lower-left corner of the screen.
      • Do this to browse through songs, albums, artists, ringtones, and genres on the iTunes Store.
    • Tap Movies. It's a film icon in the lower-left part of the screen.
      • Do this to browse through films, actors, directors, and genres on the iTunes Store.
    • Tap TV Shows. It's a video monitor icon at the bottom-center of the screen.
      • Do this to browse through series, titles, genres, and actors on on the iTunes Store.
  3. Tap the price. To download a song, album, movie, TV show, or series, tap the price next to the title.
    • In the case of some movies or TV shows, you may see a rental option. To rent, rather than buy, the video, tap the rental price.
  4. Tap BUY (MEDIA). This button will appear in the same place as the price button. Tapping it confirms your purchase or rental. The music or video you purchased or rented will begin downloading to your iPhone.
    • Look for purchased music in the Music app, under the "Downloaded Music" tab in the Library.
    • Look for purchased or rented movies or TV shows in the TV app under the "Downloaded" tab of the Library.

Downloading Previously Purchased Music or Videos with the iTunes Store App

  1. Open the iTunes Store app. It's a purple app with a white musical note inside a white circle.
    • It's advisable to Join a Wireless Network from Your iPhone network with this method, as music and videos use a lot of data when downloading.
  2. Tap More. It's an ellipsis icon in the lower-right corner of the screen.
  3. Tap Purchased.
  4. Tap the type of media to download. Choose from Music, Movies, or TV Shows.
  5. Tap Not on This iPhone. It's in the upper-right corner of the screen.
  6. Tap an artist or title. Music is arranged alphabetically by artist, movies are listed alphabetically by title, and TV shows are alphabetically ordered by series title.
  7. Tap the "Download" icon. It appears to the right of the song, album, movie, series, or episode you've purchased and want to download. It's a cloud icon that contains a downward-pointing arrow.
    • The music or video will begin downloading to your phone.
    • Look for music in the Music app, under the "Downloaded Music" tab in the Library.
    • Look for movies or TV shows in the TV app under the "Downloaded" tab of the Library.

Adding Music Manually Using iTunes

  1. Open iTunes on your computer. The icon looks like a multicolored musical note inside a white background with a multicolored ring around the outside.
  2. Attach your iPhone to your computer. Using your iPhone cable, plug the USB end into your computer and the other end into your iPhone charging port.
    • If your iTunes has Stop iTunes from Opening Automatically when You Connect Your iPhone enabled, simply opening iTunes and plugging in your phone will add any new music to your iPhone.
  3. Click on the media drop-down menu. It's in the upper-left corner of the screen next to the icon of your iPhone.
  4. Click on Music. It's the first selection in the menu.
  5. Click a "Library" option. In the "Library" section in the left pane of the iTunes window, there are several ways in which to view the music in your library:
    • Recently Added
    • Artists
    • Albums
    • Songs
    • Genres
  6. Click on and drag an item onto your iPhone. Drag a song or album from the library on the right side of the window to your iPhone's icon in the left pane of the window, under the "Devices" section.
    • A blue rectangle will surround your iPhone's icon.
    • You can select multiple items by clicking on them while holding down Ctrl (PC) or ⌘ Command (Mac).
  7. Drop the song on your iPhone. Do so by releasing the mouse or trackpad button, which will start the upload to your iPhone.
  8. Click on the media drop-down menu. It's in the upper-left corner of the screen next to the icon of your iPhone.
  9. Click on Movies. It's the second selection in the menu.
  10. Click on a "Library" option. In the "Library" section in the left pane of the iTunes window, there are several ways in which to view the movies in your library:
    • Recently Added
    • Movies
    • Genres
    • Home Videos
      • Home videos are videos that you've added to your iTunes library but did not purchase from the iTunes Store.
  11. Click on and drag an item onto your iPhone. Drag a video from the library on the right side of the window to your iPhone's icon in the left pane of the window, under the "Devices" section.
    • A blue rectangle will surround your iPhone's icon.
    • You can select multiple items by clicking on them while holding down Ctrl (PC) or ⌘ Command (Mac).
  12. Drop the video on your iPhone. Do so by releasing the mouse or trackpad button, which will start the upload to your iPhone.
  13. Click on the media drop-down menu. It's in the upper-left corner of the screen next to the icon of your iPhone.
  14. Click on TV Shows. It's the second selection in the menu.
  15. Click on a "Library" option. In the "Library" section in the left pane of the iTunes window, there are several ways in which to view the TV Shows in your library:
    • Recently Added
    • TV Shows
    • Episodes
    • Genres
  16. Click on and drag an item onto your iPhone. Drag a series or episode from the library on the right side of the window to your iPhone's icon in the left pane of the window, under the "Devices" section.
    • A blue rectangle will surround your iPhone's icon.
    • You can select multiple items by clicking on them while holding down Ctrl (PC) or ⌘ Command (Mac).
  17. Drop the series or episode on your iPhone. Do so by releasing the mouse or trackpad button, which will start the upload to your iPhone.
  18. Wait for your music or video(s) to finish uploading. Once the process is done, you can disconnect your iPhone from the desktop.
    • Look for music in the Music app, under the "Downloaded Music" tab in the Library.
    • Look for movies, home videos or TV shows in the TV app under the "Downloaded" tab of the Library.

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